How to upgrade to the latest version¶
This section describes the main steps to manually update an existing Knowage installation, on top of the certified Apache Tomcat server, to the latest available version.
Pay attention to the fact that Knowage versions’ names adhere to the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
In the following we will refer to Tomcat installation folder as TOMCAT_HOME
.
The upgrade of both Knowage components is generally needed:
- the applications that reside within
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps
folder: allknowage*.war
files (knowage.war, knowagebirtreportengine.war, knowagecockpitengine.war, …) - the Knowage metadata database, where configuration information is stored, in case you are upgrading to a different major or minor version.
Preliminary operations¶
Before starting upgrade procedure, you have to:
- download latest packages from the OW2 repository: base location is https://release.ow2.org/knowage/, you’ll find a folder for each version, each folder contains:
Applications
with the relevant war files, andDatabase scripts
with the SQL scripts (distributed as zip files) to upgrade Knowage metadata database for supported RDBMS; - make a backup copy of the old web applications that reside within:
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps
; - make a backup copy of Knowage metadata database.
Upgrade operations¶
To upgrade Knowage installation follow these steps:
stop Apache Tomcat service;
upgrade the Knowage metadata database by executing the SQL scripts. Each SQL script is conceived for upgrading a Knowage <major.minor> version into the next one, therefore you need to execute all scripts between your current <major.minor> version to the latest one. As an example, suppose RDBMS is Oracle, your current Knowage version is 6.0.x and you want to upgrade into Knowage 6.3.x, then you need to execute the following scripts:
1 2 3
ORA_upgradescript_6.0_to_6.1.sql ORA_upgradescript_6.1_to_6.2.sql ORA_upgradescript_6.2_to_6.3.sql
Note
- Moving into a newest patch version within the same <major.minor> family
In case you are moving into a newest patch version that belongs to the same <major.minor> family (for example from Knowage 6.2.0 to 6.2.4) there is no need to execute any SQL script.
delete all
knowage*.war
files and all theknowage*
directories fromTOMCAT_HOME/webapps
;delete the following directories:
TOMCAT_HOME/temp
andTOMCAT_HOME/work
;copy and paste all the
knowage*.war
files withinTOMCAT_HOME/webapps
directory;start Apache Tomcat service, wait until Apache Tomcat is started and then stop it again in order to change some configuration files;
for Knowage metadata database dialect, check that the right dialect has been set inside hibernate.cfg.xml files: the
hibernate.dialect
property should match your RDBMS for Knowage metadata database. Admissible dialects are:org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect
list of hibernate.cfg.xml files to check follows:
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowage/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagecockpitengine/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagedataminingengine/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagegeoreportengine/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagekpiengine/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagemeta/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowagesvgviewerengine/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml
check Quartz scheduler engine configuration within file
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowage/WEB-INF/classes/quartz.properties
: it is essential to set the propertyorg.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass
with the right value, according to the metadata database in use. Admissible values are:# Mysql delegate class org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass=org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.StdJDBCDelegate # Postgres delegate class #org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass=org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.PostgreSQLDelegate # Oracle delegate class #org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass=org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.oracle.OracleDelegate
restore the Quartz cluster modality, in case Knowage is installed within a cluster: add these lines:
org.quartz.jobStore.isClustered = true org.quartz.jobStore.clusterCheckinInterval = 20000 org.quartz.scheduler.instanceId = AUTO org.quartz.scheduler.instanceName = RHECMClusteredSchedule
restore all
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/knowage*/META-INF/context.xml
files from backup copy of previous applications;start Apache Tomcat again.